Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-23

and Hale were invited to spesk. II all
the Republican Senators in the country
had traversed the state it would have
been nothing new Or remarkable, nor
would the Democrats have been surprised,
nor would they have complained.
The invitation OF noted Democrats from
other states TO speak in OHIO WAS there
fore not an unusual proceeding. But it
) was resented as in some way sn outrage
upon the citizens of that state. And why
General Gordon was Governor Of one OF
the states of the Union He hsd been re-
Gently Senator Of the United States. He
lay under no kind Of disability. But he
had been s. Confederate officer, rebel.
Yes, and so MIR. Orr aud Mr.. KY and
Generals Mosby and Longstreet had been
rebels. Bnt they were all honored and
trusted by Republican administrators nd
one of them had saG in Republican cebi-
net. II TO have been rebel disqualified B
man from taking part in sn election cam
paign in Oaio, how was 1t thaI to have
| been rebel did not disq1alify MIN from
making laws in the Senate and executip g
them in the cabinet? Simply because the
| Republican party wisely declared, at the
end Of the war, that man may have
worthy of confidence Because the party
wisely held tina, notwithstanding his
part in the civil war, he could be trusted
TO sit in Congress AMI to advise the Pres
ident, and because the Republican party
did not believe that to have been a rebel
was 10 be permanently sn enemy CT the
Union and sn unwearied conspiretor
against the national welfare. II
IN
sense in which the words
sion," it captured the Republican Presl-
dent Grant when he appointed M. Orr
Minister 10 Russia, and the Republican
President Hayes Of ONO when he ap-
pointed Mr.. Key Postmaster General. If
rebels are in office anywhere, tits because
the Republican party permitted it. II
public officers who were rebels come to
Ohio to speak, it is because the Republi-
caR party opened the way. II rebels are
| in the saddle, it is because the Republi-
can party knew that they had ceased to be
rebels, and were as good citizens as any
others. For if euch be not the fact, moth
ing could have demonstrated such COM
plete incapaCity to administer the govern
ment as 70 have made it possible for its
enemies TO control it.
The CRY OF rebel invasion because 8
| Democrat from Georgia comes to address
| Democrats in OHIO is the last desperate
etforS to CarrY an election by sn appeal 10
passions which have no longer any reason
and are fast expiring. It is Cry totally
unworthy Of patriotic party and OF
honorable American citizens. One great
need of the country is not g sectional and
traditional prejudice, which would
keep orators from the southern states
out OF northern states, and northern ora.
tors from speaking in Carolina and Mis-
s.ippl, thus fostering and prolongiDg
the old and peTii0us sectional Glienstion,
but the freest discussion of all public
questions everywhere in the country by
orators from every state. The effort to
maintain this alienation and TO profit by
it is one of the worst aspects Of the RAJ
publican policy. On the eve of the cleo
ton an ONO Republican who proposed to
support the whole ticket because the
state administration had been honest and
efficient said publicly in print OF the Sec
rional and free-Whisky national policy OF
the Republicans:
"The excuse for this is that in places
south the negro is not permitted to vote.
These leaders know perfectly we'll that
under Ike circumstances they would not
let the negro vote in Ohio. The presence
Of few mulatto children in the schools
in OHIO has evoked an explosion of the
meanest form OF race hate. What would
take place if the black children were as
two to one Of the whites? Whist would
take place in this state If two
thirds Of o county were ignorant
field hands? Would they be
permitted to rule? The abolitionisf
sought the freedom Of the black man, not
to make him master. The race problem
is difficult one. Many wise and good
men in the north thought that the two
races could not live in peace together,
both free. This problem the south is,
solving better than any one anticipates
[ lived in the south with slavery. In re-
cent years hsve spent my summers in
an old slave state. I have traReled
extensively in the south. And fnany
opinion the negro laborers south ere Dsts'
ter of than the white laborers in Cincin-
nsti. The negro in most respects is
treated better south than he is in Cincin-
natl. In the south l see whites and
blacks playing base bsll together. Do
you do that in Cincinnati? As an Old alb
olitionist [ rejoice to see the south doing
so well with the negro. The Union and
abolition are secure; SO, in my opinion,
this outbreak Of sectional resentment in
Obioiis as weak in policy as it is unpatriotic
and wicked in principle.
"Now, Mr.. Edit0r, leadership that
makes the Republican party the repre-
sentative of sectional hate Or free whisky
shocks the moral sense. protest against
it. hope the Republican party, as the
representative of honest administration,
may win; but protest in advance against
the claim that such victory is either sn
enforcement of either sectional hate or
free whisky. II this misguided leader
ship fastens next year these atrocious
principles upon the Republican party, it
will and ought to be defeated ;,